“A bumper of good liquor
Will end a contest quicker
Than justice, judge, or vicar.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) Irish-British politician, playwright and writer
Act I, sc. iii.
The Duenna (1775)
“Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.”
Earlier proverb, quoted in James Howell's English Proverbs (1659)
Better belly burst than good drink lost.
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
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